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Two Figures on the Beach is a Horizontal beach scene including a visual zest of warm color - sky pink, with the inclusion of people - a man and a woman - enjoying the atmospheric light on the water, sea shore and across the painted sky. From American Realist Willard Dixon. The canvas is 30 x 54 inches and it is framed in a classic artist fabricated oak floater frame. Ready to hang and enjoy. Signed in paint with artist initials front. And signed in pen with artist's signature Verso.
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The same sensitivity can be found in Dixon’s urban street scenes that offer viewers a resting place to contemplate our rapidly changing world, and his portraiture, which largely focuses on his artist friends and illustrious colleagues.
Dixon’s work can be found in many prestigious public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Oakland Museum of Art / California, as well as numerous private art collections worldwide. The original painting is artist signed front and verso. It comes framed in a classic hard wood floater frame.
Willard Dixon
Born Kansas City MO, 1942
Education Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
Commissions California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90 San Francisco State University
1975 San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72 California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015 Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008 SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005 Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005 Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002 Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000 Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998 Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995 Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994 Fischbach Gallery
1993 Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992 Fischbach Gallery
1991 Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Fischbach Gallery
1989 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Fischbach Gallery
1987 Gallery 454 North
1986 William Sawyer Gallery
1985 Fischbach Gallery
1984 Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984 William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982 Fischbach Gallery
1981 William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979 Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975 William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972 William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015 REAL / with Elizabeth Barlow
Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2014 Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition.
Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2013 Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition”
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College
2012 Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky
Gallery, S.F., CA.
Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2011 California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum
2010 Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2009 On Beauty/ I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2008 At Water’s Edge/ I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2007 San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA
Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA.
2006 Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA
2005 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA
2002 H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press,
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery,
Kentfield, CA
Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001 Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2000 Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery,
Redding, Ca
1999 Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American
Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For?/ curated for the Oakland Museum by William T.Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA
1998 Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA
1996 Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996 Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA
1996 New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1995 Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area/
De Young Museum, S.F., CA
Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994 Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA
1993 Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY
1992 A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting/
I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN (traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists/ One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
1991 The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY , National Traveling Ex.
1990 Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1990 New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1989 The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988 Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery/
Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA
Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ
1986 Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, LA
1985 The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden gate Park, San Francisco, CA Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA
Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX
The Urban Landscape/ One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1982 Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1981 Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/
William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1980 Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979 Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978 New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1977 Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery
Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y.
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize)
1977 Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ
1976 Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1975 Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1975 A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA
California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1974 Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA
A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
1973 College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA
California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
1972 Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA
1970 Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1970 San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1967 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1966 California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
Selected Private Collections
Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY
Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms. Faye Dunaway
Mr . Peter Morton
Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY
Mr. Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY
Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY
Mr. Luca Barilla
Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY
Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY
Ms. Carla Kirkeby, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Caplow, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyerowitz, New York, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Gilsendaine
Mrs. Caroline Cushing Graham, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Michael Nesmith, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Griffen Dunne, New York, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskine, Pasadena, CA
Mr. N.J. Friedman, Hillsborough, CA
Mr. Harold Hollingsworth, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Bruce Owen, San Francisco, CA
Dr. and Mrs. George Hogle, Woodside, CA
Dr. and Mrs. Monstavicius, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Bruce Lindstrom, Denver ,CO
Mr. Tom Mazzolini, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Warren Dennis, Pasadena ,CA
Mr. and Mrs. Hedreen, Seattle, WA
Ms. Rena Bransten, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Richard Baker, Crestone, CO
Selected Bibliography
2013 Arts for the City, San Francisco Civic Art and Urban Change
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013, National Portrait Gallery
2012 Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge, George Krevsky Gallery
1999 Art and Architecture, San Francisco Civic Center Complex, Art committee of the S.F.Civic Center Complex
1999 Nissen, Dorothy, What Good is Art? William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster & 100 Artists, p.11, StudioDotWiz, Berkeley, CA
1998 Driscoll, John, The Artist and the American Landscape, First Glance Books, Cobb, CA
Chiang, Harriet, “Quake Shook Dust Off State Building,” San Francisco Chronicle Fri., Dec 1
1997 Bonetti, David, “Gallery Watch,” San Francisco Examiner, Nov. 14
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 1987-1997 , Hackett-Freedman Gallery,
San Francisco, CA, (catalog with color reproduction)
Dixon, Willard, Fin de Siecle Painting/ Artweek, p.18 Sept.
“Review,” Artscene, Vol. 16, No.7, March, p. 12
“Arcane Still Lifes.” Southwest Art, March, p. 40
1996 Gussow, Alan & Gayle Maxon-Edgerton, Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas,
(exhibition catalog), Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1996 Farmer, Rob, “Painting the Town,” Where Magazine, May, p. 14-15
1995 Jenkins, Steven, Willard Dixon at the Contemporary Realist Gallery, Artweek,
Feb., 1995, p.p. 26-27
1995 Nash, Steven, Facing Eden: 100 Years of landscape Art in the Bay Area, p.p. 155-156, Fine Arts Museums of S.F. and U. of California Press.
1993 Skolnick, Arnold, Paintings of California, p.p. 98-99, color reproduction
Gussow, Alan, introduction by John Driscoll, The Artist as Native: Re-inventing Regionalism p.p.94-95, Pomegranate Artbooks
1993 Tanner, Marcia, Contemporary Landscapes Bask in Local Gallery Spotlight,
San Francisco Chronicle, May 12, p.8, (Z1)
“Bohemian Grooves”, Image Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, February 21, p.p.24-26
1992 Littell, Katherine M., “Willard Dixon: A California Luminist”, Art of California,
November, p.p. 13-15 (Feature Article with color reproductions)
Bourdon, David, “Critics Diary”, Art in America, September, p.59
1992 Brzezinski, Jamey, Willard Dixon, Art Week, January 30. Vol. 23, No.4, p. 16 (reproduction)
Sims, Lowery Stokes and Lisa M. Messinger, The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, p.p. 130-131 (color reproduction)
Jones, Harvey L., San Francisco:The Painted City, p.p. 36-37 (color reproduction)
1991 Morse, Rob, “Frisco-Style Foreplay”, San Francisco Examiner, Image Magazine, July 14,p.p.5-6
1990 Kaufman, Jason Edward, “A Resurgence of Realism-The Landscape NewYork City Tribune. May 16, p.16
1987 Garner, Colin, “LA Cienega Area”, Los Angeles Times, April 17
1986 Sims, Lowery S., Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, (catalog with reproduction)
1985 Bloom, John &Mark Levy, Facets of the Collection, Pacific Telesis Group,
p.24, (catalog with color reproduction)
1984 McCloud, Mac, American Landscape Painting, California State University, Los Angeles p.p. 18-19 (catalog with color reproduction) 1984
“Sheldon Opens New Season With Four Exhibitions”, Lincoln Journal Star, September 2, p.1-H
San Francisco Bay Area Painting, Nebraska Art Association, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
p.p. 16-17 (catalog with color reproduction)
1978 Frankenstein, Alfred, “A Fresh Look at Light and Air”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 14,(reproduction)
1972 The Transamerica Collection, Transamerica Corporation, p.p. 6-7
(catalog with color reproduction)
- Creator:Willard Dixon (1942, American)
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 54 in (137.16 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Burlingame, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: FDDIXW1911stDibs: LU375314102772
Willard Dixon
Willard Dixon’s art has been shown extensively in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, He has had over 40 one-man shows and numerous group shows. His work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, The SFMOMA, and the Oakland Museum of California Art. He has executed large-scale commissions for The California Supreme Court, The Oakland Museum and The Las Vegas Federal Courthouse. He received an NEA Fellowship Grant in 1989. In 2013, one of his portraits was included in The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Represented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
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By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
A tranquil oil painting featuring an early evening sunset with people strolling on the main beach in Carmel in front of a majestic sky from Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today. Dixon has painted coastal landscapes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The painting, with its atmospheric light and calm color palette in natural sky blue and setting sun warm red to purple, is contemporary and serene. The colors are reminiscent of Rothko as they shift in natural bands. Looking at this painting is like looking through a window to a lovely moment as the close of a day.
Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his work is collected Internationally. Artist signed and dated. A classic Dixon that will sure to bring those who view it a life time of pleasure.
Carmel Beach, 18 x 53 inches. Oil on canvas, and traditionally framed in contemporary, minimal oak floater frame.
The artist was born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College
2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA.
Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum
2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA
Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA.
2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA
2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA
2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press,
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca
1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American
Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA
1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA
1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA
1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA
Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA
1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY
1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit
1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA
Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ
1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA
Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX
The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/
William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery
Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y.
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize)
1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ
1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA
California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA
A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA
California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA
1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
Selected Private Collections
Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. John Irvin, London, England Ms. Joan Didion, New York , NY
Ms. Sabrina Guinness, London, Eng.
Mr. and Mrs. Austin Hills, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms. Faye Dunaway
Mr . Peter Morton
Mrs H.J. Heinze, New York, NY
Mr. Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emery, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Earl Mc Grath, New York, NY
Mr. Nat Weiss, New York, NY
Mr. Luca Barilla
Mr. Bruce Schnietzer, New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll, New York, NY
Mrs. Nicholas Boyd, San Francisco, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Green, San Francisco, CA
Mr. Chappy Morris, New York, NY
Ms. Carla Kirkeby, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Caplow, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meyerowitz, New York, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Gilsendaine
Mrs. Caroline Cushing Graham, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Michael Nesmith, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Griffen Dunne, New York, N.Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Erskine, Pasadena, CA
Mr. N.J. Friedman, Hillsborough, CA
Mr. Harold Hollingsworth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Fire Road
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
One of the finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California coastal landscapes for 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Ocean Beach Surfers
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beautiful beach scene featuring surfers on California's Ocean Beach, includes its familiar Seal Rocks, a man and his dog and other surfers wading out to sea. The scene celebrates the atmospheric light that Dixon is known for, as well as white clouds across the blue sky with its purple haze and serene light reflecting upon the shoreline. The oil on canvas painting was created in 2019 by American Realist Willard Dixon. The canvas is 24 x 36 inches and it is framed in a classic artist fabricated hardwood floater frame 25 x 37 inches overall. Ready to hang and enjoy. Signed in paint with artist initials front.
One of our finest American contemporary realist painters, Willard Dixon has painted Northern California and western landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The same sensitivity can be found in Dixon’s urban street scenes that offer viewers a resting place to contemplate our rapidly changing world, and his portraiture, which largely focuses on his artist friends and illustrious colleagues.
Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, as well as the Califorrnia Museum of Oakland, CA.
From Andra Norris Gallery in California.
The artist was born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish, Irene Zweig, Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA
2015: REAL with Elizabeth Barlow Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2014: Stillness and Activity / A father and daughter exhibition, Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2013: Outwin Boocher Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Hey Everybody / Portraits, Diablo Valley College
2012: Artistic Visions of the Golden Gate Bridge”, George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA.
Introduction Two/ Gallerie Citi, Burlingame, CA.
2011: California: A Landscape of Dreams/ Fresno Art Museum
2010: Self Portrait Invitational/ Julie Nester Gallery, Park City UT
2009: On Beauty /I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2008: At Water’s Edge / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
2007: San Francisco Scenes/ George Krevsky Gallery, S.F., CA
Ten Years- A Retrospective/ Dolby Chadwick Gallery, S.F., CA.
2006: Our Planet, Our Home/ SFMOMA Artists Gallery, S.F. CA
2005: 2005 Spring Group Show/ Earl McGrath Gallery, L.A., CA
2002: H2O’02, Paintings of Water/ Fischbach Gallery, NYC
Scene in Oakland 1852-2002 Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
The Garden/ Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
The Moving Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
Bay Area Printmakers/ works from Trillium Press,
Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
California Landscape Paintings/ College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, CA
Bay Area Printmakers/ SF Museum of Modern Art/Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Visions: Northern California/ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
2001: Opening Exhibit: Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, NY, NY
2000: Hackett Freedman Gallery Artists/ Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, Ca
1999: Homage to the Art Institute, Artists Who Transformed American
Culture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999: What is Art For? What are Museums For? What are You For? curated Curated for the Oakland Museum by William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster, Oakland, CA
1998: Paintings of Marin County Past and Present/ The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997: 10th Anniversary Exhibition/ Hackett Freedman Gallery, S.F., CA
1996: Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas/ Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (traveling exhibition)
Contemporary American Realist Painters/ Halls Crown Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1996: Foundation for the Future: Celebrating 125 Years at the San Francisco Art Institute/ One Bush St., S.F., CA
1996: New Work by Selected Gallery Artists, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flower Paintings/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1995: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area / De Young Museum, S.F., CA
Contemporary Still Life Painting/ David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1994: Still Life/ Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY
New Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
A Room with a View/ The North Point Gallery, S.F., CA
1993: Bay Area Painting/ Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
Vanishing Point: A Look at Contemporary Landscape Painting”,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Tribute/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
Revolution: Into the 2nd Century at the San Francisco Art Institute, One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
Contemporary Realism: Central and Northern California Landscapes/ Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Artist as Native: Reinventing Regionalism/ a traveling exhibition curated by Alan Gussow and Babcock Galleries, N.Y., NY
1992: A Day in the Country, California Landscape Painting / I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
West Art and the Law/ Weat Publishing Co., St. Paul, MN(traveling ex.) The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
In Support of Contemporary Bay Area Artists / One Market Plaza, S.F., CA
1991: The Landscape in 20th-Century American Art: Selections from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art/ New York, NY, National Traveling Exhibit
1990: Contemporary Landscapes/ 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1990: New Bay Area Painting Contemporary Realist Gallery, S.F., CA
1989: The Modern Pastoral/ Robert Scholekopf Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Ten Artists from the William Sawyer Gallery / Shasta College Gallery, Redding CA
Works on Paper/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987: The Contemporary American Landscape/ Swain Gallery, NJ
1986: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape/ Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985: The Bay Area Seen/ Bay Area Regionalists Show, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Large Scale/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
A City Collects/ Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
American Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984: San Francisco Bay Area Painting/ curated by George Neubert for the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
American Landscape Painting/ California State University, L.A. CA
Western Landscape Painters/ The Museum of the West, Houston, TX
The Urban Landscape / One Market Plaza, San Francisco, CA
1982: Collectors Gallery 16/ McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX
Thirty Approaches to Realism/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1981: Views of California Past and Present/ Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Landscapes/ Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
110th Anniversary S.F. Art Institute Alumni Group Show/
William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1980: Realism/ Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1979: Bay Area Artists Exhibition/Sale/ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Omnium Gatherum/ Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
California Viewpoints/ Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: New Work/ Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Images of the Land/ William Sawyer Gallery, S.F., CA
1977: Contemporary California Artists/ Marshall-Meyers Gallery
Alternative to the Whitney Annual/ James Yu Gallery, N. Y, N.Y.
San Francisco Art Festival/ ( Airport Competition Purchase Prize)
1977: Eight Young Americans/ Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair,NJ
1976: Three From California/ Francine Sedars Gallery, Seattle, WA
Faculty Show/ California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1975: Realism in Painting and Ceramics/ Helen Euphrat Gallery,
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1975: A Tribute to the Art Institute/ Hansen Fuller Gallery, S.F., CA
California Artists/ Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT
1974: Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water/ by Alfred Frankenstein Expo 74, Spokane, WA
A Sense of Place/ curated by Alan Gussow for the Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE
The Discovery Gallery, Montclair, N.J.
1973: College of Marin Gallery, Kentfield, CA
California Artists/ Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
1972: Visiting Artists/ California State University, Hayward, CA
1970: Drawing Invitational/ Emanuel Walter Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA
1970: San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1967: Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Annual,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA
1966: California Landscape Painters/ San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
Selected Private Collections
Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Swim
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach scene with children at play in the ocean water. Willard Dixon is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters who has painted western landscapes for 40 years. His ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Bach
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Glorious combination of figuration and landscape with ocean-scape from celebrated living American Realist Willard Dixon who has spent a lifetime capturing the West with its grand and humble spirit. The exceptional work comes framed with a natural and contemporary hard wood framing. 'Evening Beach' is 43 x 65 inches. The work is featured in the artists's newest book, Evening Light. Signed and dated by the artist. A beautiful work of art that celebrates early evening ocean calm and light - the artist's favorite.
Willard Dixon's work can be found in countless private collections and important museum collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Oakland Museum of California Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Brought to you from Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco International Airport
Oxford Petroleum Company, Houston,TX
California First Bank, San Francisco, CA
United Pipeline, Houston, TX
Security Pacific National Bank, S.F., CA
Crocker Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Visa Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Shell Oil, Houston, TX
First National Bank of Seattle
RREEF Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Texas Heritage Society
Genstar Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Sohio Corporation
Skidmore Owings and Merrill, N.Y.C., NY
Chemical Bank, NY
Swissre Corporation, NY
The Insurance Company of North America
First National Bank of Midland, Texas
Commerce Bank
AMA Headquarters, Washington, DC
Hughes Tool, Houston, TX
ATT, NY
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, San Francisco, CA
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, IL
Smith Kline and French Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Republic National Bank
Chevron
Trammel Crow Company, Dallas, CA
U.S. Insurance Group, N.J.
Southwestern Bell Corp., MO
Union Bank
Pacific Bell
United States Trust Company, NY
The United Bank of Denver, CO
Cigna Corp., Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Richfield Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Show, Pittman, Pots and Trobridge, Washington, DC
San Francisco Zen Center
Hughes Aircraft Co. Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M), St. Paul, MN
Bank of America, NY
Commerce Bancshares, Inc., Kansas City,MO
Robinson Humphrey/American Express, Atlanta, GA
Merrill Lynch, San Francisco, CA
Goldman Sachs, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., NY
Victoria Bank and Trust, Victoria, TX
NYNEX, NY
Coca Cola, U.S.A., Atlanta, GA
TransAmerica Corporation
Pacific Telesis Group
Brobeck, Phleger, & Harrison Exxon Corporation
U.S. Trust
Selected Private Collections
Estate of Ahmet Ertegun, New York, NY Mr. Harrison Ford, Los Angeles, CA
Estate of Irving Lazarr, Los Angeles, Ca
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Holzer, New York, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Asher...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On The Edge
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
The painting "On The Edge' is a glorious combination of figuration and landscape with a family or a group of friends sitting on the very edge of the Grand Canyon. American Realist Willard Dixon who has spent a lifetime capturing the West with its grand and humble spirit. The exceptional work comes framed with a natural and contemporary hard wood framing. 'Evening Beach' is 40 x 60 inches. The work is featured in the artists's newest book, Evening Light. Signed and dated by the artist. A beautiful work of art that celebrates early evening ocean calm and light - the artist's favorite.
Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Oakland Museum of California.
'On The Edge' is 40 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas. It is traditionally framed in thin, minimal natural oak with an outer dimension of 40.5 x 60.5 inches. Artist signed and dated. Condition is excellent / as new. Painted in late 1992.
From Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Born: Kansas City MO, 1942
Education: Art Students League, New York, NY
Cornell University
Brooklyn Museum School
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A. 1969
Awards and Commissions
N.E.A. Fellowship Grant- 1989
California Supreme Court Mural Commission- 1998
Las Vegas Federal Courthouse Commission, G.S.A.-1998
Teaching
1989-90: San Francisco State University
1975: San Francisco Art Institute Realism Seminar
1974-76: Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA
1973-74, 1976: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1971-72: California State University, Hayward, CA
One Man Exhibitions
2015: Willard Dixon Portraits College of Marin Fine Art Gallery, Kentfield
2014: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2008: SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005: Fischbach Gallery, NYC,NY
2005: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
2002: Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2001: Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000: Fischbach Gallery, NYC , NY
2000: Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
1998: Hackett Freedman Gallery, SF, CA
1997: Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996, 1995: Contemporary Realist Gallery (now Hackett Freedman Gallery)
1994: Fischbach Gallery
1993: Contemporary Realist Gallery
1992: Fischbach Gallery
1991: Earl McGrath Gallery, 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1990: Fischbach Gallery
1989: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1988: Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1987: Fischbach Gallery
1987: Gallery 454 North
1986: William Sawyer Gallery
1985: Fischbach Gallery
1984: Harris Gallery, Houston, Tx
1984: William Sawyer Gallery
1983, 1982: Fischbach Gallery
1981: William Sawyer Gallery
1980,1979: Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976, 1975: William Sawyer Gallery
1973, 1972: William Sawyer Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017: SHIFT / with Elizabeth Barlow, Kim Frohsin, Erin Parrish...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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